The American Hockey League Division final playoff series will get underway Wednesday night and that is not a moment too soon for both clubs. While the grind of travel and the tough schedule is spoken about often in hockey, in this case both the Lake Erie Monsters and Grand Rapids Griffins likely wouldn’t have minded getting started a little bit
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info The Grand Rapids Griffins advanced to the American Hockey League’s Central Division championship with a 4-1 win over the visiting Milwaukee Admirals in one of the strangest games seen at Van Andel Arena Tuesday (April 26) night. The Griffins, hosting it’s first game in a Best-of-Five series after back-to-back wins
By Jim den Hollander Midwesthockey.info You’ve heard the joke about if you don’t like the weather in (pick your place), just wait 10 minutes. The American Hockey League Central Division has been like that for several years. Just wait a week and the standings will all be different. This season the division did more or
The nice thing about covering the six Midwest-based teams in the American Hockey League is that they are all in the same division. Of course the bad thing about that is only four of the eight teams in the Central Division will qualify for the post season. In recent seasons, this division has seen its
Technically, the Grand Rapids Griffins already started the three-game winning streak it is currently riding earlier in the week, but the weekend return of Andreas Athanasiou from the Detroit Red Wings certainly didn’t hurt. The 21-year-old native of London, ON returned from a half-dozen games with the parent team and his first NHL goal. If he
Compared to the other Midwest-based teams, the Detroit Red Wings left a large number of players in camp for longer, but on Sunday (Oct. 4) the long awaited deep cuts came getting the team close to a final roster. The Wings forwards: Andreas Athanasiou; Louis-Marc Aubry; Tyler Bertuzzi; Colin Campbell; Anthony Mantha; Zach Nastasiuk; Tomas
